Courses

Contemporary power shifts in the global political economy, and the agendas and impact of emerging powers in global politics, economics and governance. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Policy-making at the global level, including theories and frameworks of global coordination and global governance. Global, regional, and sub-regional mechanisms. Trade, finance, climate, food regulation, developmental norms, and security. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Ethnic and religious conflict in Asia related to historical and dialectic development of different forms of nationalism; the confluence between religion, ethnicity, and nationalist ideologies in the escalation of conflicts in different Asian societies. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Key issues, institutions and debates in global economic policymaking. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

The impact of Internet on policy and global affairs structural changes to: economy with reduced transaction costs; media through new publishing forms; politics through new structures for collective action; law through limits of privacy and confidentiality; governance through e-government. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Behavioural neuroscience; behavioural genetics; social systems; mating and parental strategies; instinct and learning; evolution of human behaviour. Credit will be given for only one of BIOL 310 or PSYC 306. Strongly recommended: PSYC 101, and one of PSYC 216, 217, or 277. Restricted to students with second-year standing or higher.

Health-related behaviours such as smoking and drug use; effects of stressful events on health; methods for coping with stress; impact of chronic illness on the family; social support systems. Strongly recommended: PSYC 102 and one of PSYC 216, 217, or 277. Restricted to students with second-year standing or higher.

Theory and research on gender development and the influence of sex and/or gender on cognition, emotion, motivation, social behaviour, and health. Strongly recommended: PSYC 101, 102 and PSYC 216, 217, or 277. Restricted to students with second-year standing or higher.

Faculty and students from different disciplines act as an interdisciplinary team studying specific resource problems with ecological, economic, demographic and social dimensions. Techniques and methods are emphasized to show their value in integrating knowledge, defining policy and facilitating communication. Several sections with different emphasis offered each year. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor is required.

Survey design focusing on stated and revealed environmental preferences, choices, behaviour and values. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Environment and resource management goals and issues. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Gender and sexuality in Italian cinema within the country's historical, sociopolitical, and cultural milieus. Credit can only be applied for one of ITAL_V 379, ITST_V 379 or RMST_V 347. Equivalency: ITAL_V 379 or ITST_V 379.

Inequality, institutions, social structure and social change. Credit will be granted for only one of SOCI 102 or SOCI 100.

Major theories of consumer society, evaluating impacts of shopping on human and non-human environments and popular solutions to these impacts.

Social organization of Canadian society: relationships between social institutions and social processes (e.g., economics, education, family, law, media, and politics); including issues of ancestry, ethnicity, gender, region, and social class. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

The structure and culture of consuming and consumption. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Sociological perspectives on property, resource industries (such as agriculture, fishing, forestry and mining), resource development, and resource communities. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Classic and contemporary sociological perspectives on health, illness, and health care. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Sociological approaches to the study of environmental conflicts, issues, movements, impact of changing technology, economic development on the environment. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Examines the role of schooling in modern society including links with inequality, knowledge production, socialization and the economy. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

A sociological approach to the meaning of mental illness; the organization of psychiatric treatment; problems in the explanation of the distribution of mental illness in a population. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Integration of fundamental, unifying, soil science principles in sustainable ecosystem management. Credit will be granted for only one of SOIL_V 502 or APBI_V 402.

Theory and conduct of social research as applied to social welfare and social work practice. Development of social work research questions and design of studies. Enrolment is limited to students in the B.S.W. program, except by permission of the school. Credit will be granted for only one of SOWK 420 or 320. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Online course providing overview of social work services to persons with a mental illness. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in SOWK.